Moving towards an understanding of interactive fun, I posit the inclination towards a "cut and paste principle", or what can also be thought of as ‘hacking’, as a component in the "aesthetics of play", that is, the pleasures ...

In 1970, Alan Kay began a project at Xerox' Palo Alto Research Center that would have an unparalleled impact on the media landscape of the 21st century; he set out to invent personal computing. Kay's contributions are, in ...

This talk proposes a new approach to conceptualizing digital and media art forms. This theoretical approach will be explored through issues raised in the process of creating a formal declarative model for digital and media ...

Going Beyond the Body's Limits: Raoul Hausmann's Art of Prosthetic Perception Avant-garde cultures of the 1920s, revolving around then-new media, envisioned the fusion of art and technology as a decisive step in the shaping ...

The development and use of science and technology by artists always has been, and always will be, an integral part of the art-making process. Nonetheless, the canon of western art history has not placed sufficient emphasis ...

The presentation -based on two decades of personal experience-, is focused on cross-cultural, interdisciplinary collaborations. Current case studies include the Aurora Public Feast at the Finnish Heureka Science Museum, ...

In previous studies, I sketched a three-part typology of modern studio-laboratories as institutions committed to research and creation in new media. In this paper I extend and problematize the three-part categorization by ...

"Media Art Net": Database and Context "Media Art Net" aims at mediating and contextualizing media art online, a project edited by Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels and commissioned by ZKM (Center for Art and Media), ...

In order to replace Media Art in its intercultural and historical context, the author attempts to define what characterizes it, beyond the sometimes great differences of its expressions. And what characterizes it is ...